“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You know that I've always been proud of the way nature singled me out. It's the people who have been deformed by… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Nature is not infallible. Nature makes mistakes. That's what evolution is all about: growth by trail and error. Nature can be stupid… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You see, at that juncture in my life I wasn’t evolved enough to understand the fluid nature of romantic love (its indifference… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances? Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen: Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“his wife, it seems, would very soon be excorting his sister to a certain clinic near New Delhi, where she might die… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It is not a belly button. (The umbilicus serves, then withdraws, leaving but a single footprint where it stood: the navel, wrinkled… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Poetry is nothing more than an intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events until they shine with their singular nature,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Romantic love is ambulatory by nature, and it must be anchored in strata more stable than lust if it’s to last. Marital… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image